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Putin's first prime minister and later his opponent has been added to Russia's 'foreign agent' list 11/24/2023 02:19pm • MOSCOW (AP) ��� Russia's Justice Ministry on Friday added Mikhail Kasyanov, who was President Vladimir Putin's first prime minister but then became one of his opponents, to its register of ���foreign agents.��� Russian law allows for figures and organizations receiving money or support from outside Greater Mid-Atlantic News Digest 1 p.m. 11/24/2023 01:03pm • Here���s a look at how AP���s general news coverage is shaping up for select stories. For up-to-the minute information on AP���s complete coverage of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, and the rest of the world, visit Coverage Plan at newsroom.ap.org Questions about cov Maui residents wonder if their burned town can be made safe. The answer? No one knows 11/24/2023 12:18pm • When Daniel Skousen scrubs at the ash and soot covering his Maui home, he worries about the smell. What chemicals created the burning-trash-barrel scent that has lingered since a deadly wildfire tore through Lahaina in August? Should he believe government agencies' assessment of when the air, land a Internet casinos thrive in 6 states. So why hasn't it caught on more widely in the US? 11/24/2023 11:15am • ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) ��� In the 10 years that it has been operating in New Jersey, internet casino gambling has generated nearly $7 billion in revenue for casinos and their affiliates, sent over a billion dollars in tax revenue to the state's coffers and helped keep Atlantic City's nine casinos Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to make EV versions of its best-selling cars at its UK factory 11/24/2023 07:13am • LONDON (AP) ��� Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars, a boost for the British government as it tries to revive the country's ailing economy. The Japanese automaker manufactures the gasoline or gas-hybrid Qa The second installment of Sri Lanka's bailout was delayed. The country hopes it's coming in December 11/24/2023 06:26am • COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) ��� The governor of Sri Lanka���s Central Bank said Friday he's confident it will receive the second instalment of a $2.9-billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund before the end of the year, after payment was delayed due to inadequate oversight and debt re New Zealand's new government promises tax cuts, more police and less bureaucracy 11/24/2023 01:41am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� New Zealanders can expect tax cuts, more police on the streets and less government bureaucracy, according to the three leaders who signed an agreement Friday to form a new government. The coalition deal ended nearly six weeks of intense negotiations after New Zealand Former St. Louis alderman in fraud case also charged with lying to police 11/23/2023 04:55pm • ST. LOUIS (AP) ��� A former St. Louis alderman indicted in a fraud case was charged with lying to police about getting carjacked last year, authorities said. Brandon Bosley was charged Wednesday with one misdemeanor count of making a false report to police when he said a woman tried to carjack him OxyContin maker's settlement plan divides victims of opioid crisis. Now it's up to the Supreme Court 11/23/2023 02:27pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The agreement by the maker of OxyContin to settle thousands of lawsuits over the harm done by opioids could help combat the overdose epidemic that the painkiller helped spark. But that does not mean all the victims are satisfied. In exchange for giving up ownership of drug manufa Daniel Noboa is sworn in as Ecuador's president, inheriting the leadership of a country on edge 11/23/2023 02:19pm • QUITO, Ecuador (AP) ��� Daniel Noboa, an inexperienced politician and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade, was sworn in Thursday as Ecuador���s president, a role that citizens are demanding he uses to restore the public safety that drug cartels and other criminal organizations robbed them of Venice rolls out day-tripper fee to try to regulate mass crowds on peak weekends 11/23/2023 08:22am • ROME (AP) ��� Venice authorities on Thursday unveiled a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year in an effort to reduce crowds, encourage longer visits and improve the quality of life for residents. The rollout of the tou US electric vehicle sales to hit record this year, but still lag behind China and Germany 11/23/2023 07:54am • Electric vehicle sales are expected to hit a record 9% of all passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, according to Atlas Public Policy. That will be up from 7.3% of new car sales in 2022. It will be the first time more than 1 million EVs are sold in the U.S. in one calendar year, probably reaching 3 New Zealand political leaders say they've reached agreement to form next government 11/23/2023 12:52am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) ��� Three New Zealand political leaders said Thursday that they have reached an agreement to form the next government, pending a final signoff from their parties which they expected within hours. The three party leaders said they expected to hold a formal signing ceremon New Philanthropy Roundtable CEO Christie Herrera ready to fight for donor privacy 11/22/2023 11:33am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Christie Herrera says, as the new president and CEO of Philanthropy Roundtable, she plans to fight for the principles the advocacy organization has always prized. But Herrera, who was officially promoted in mid-October, recognizes that battle is getting tougher and more complicated Britain's Conservative government pushes tax cuts in hopes of bolstering electoral chances 11/22/2023 11:17am • LONDON (AP) ��� Britain's Conservative government sought to regain the political initiative Wednesday with a series of tax cuts for businesses and individuals that it hopes will bolster its chances in a national election next year that opinion polls suggest it will lose. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt s